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smustangs
09-21-2005, 12:29 AM
Sports Talk Show host Jim Rome

on Texas A&M

They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and dogs, and old army, and red ass, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat U.T., and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the feeling their entire school was built to spite U.T. Forget the fact that when the Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state university; they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main school (University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics. Ags love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't know..........the fact is, the State intended A&M to be a branch of U.T. They are like afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in "Twins". So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote their entire school to trying to prove to U.T. that they are just as good. All the while, nobody at U.T. denies that A&M is a good school, yet they won't shut up. So they write a fight song.....about?.....Texas, and how they want to beat them. They have a Fish camp for Freshman where they tell them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are. It is the worlds longest known case of penis envy, and it is manifested in everything A&M does.

The people at A&M. Now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M. There are some nice people there. However......there is the Corp. East Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe toys, there is the Corp. Now, forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corp looked like a Gestapo hate rally when beating down students (including one instance of tackling and punching a young girl) on Kyle Field in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they, just this past month, have had one Corp member bring charges against another Corp member who apparently had been propositioning others for a little actual sodomy. Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocy by these Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own stories. The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the Army, and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M don't even like these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and dress up. Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel. It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18 year old girls in the stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should be against the law. I know that in College Station, students are prone to just mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or any time anything good happens you can just grab the girl next to you and start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we had to move the game from Thanksgiving. Because people across the nation were gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game, some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the board. Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give them a veil.

t.u. is not funny. It is NOT insulting. It is just dumb. Just imagine Ags, if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A, and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be retarded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn.

You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep, of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national television. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for Governor. When you are filling out your season ticket renewals, and the form asks for your - Phone #, H & W: Quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3, Weight 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves. Go to East Texas, tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a 5th grade education why they cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid.

Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder; they might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The point is, nobody cares 'who wins halftime'. Quit getting geeked up about marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared then, and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if you do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college?

Men should never let out high pitched whooping sounds. Perhaps the only justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an anal probe. Oh wait........I understand now.

Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their own feces and should be treated accordingly.

Finally. College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it is a great college town. It is a town, and there is a college there. That should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get any better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never ending 'Dukes Of Hazard' episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move to Austin........they are trying to create an educated, technological, and open minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace and final resting place of all that is cool. As my friend Stephen Johnston once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is where you would connect the hose."

If you go to school at A&M, please don't be an aggie. God Bless the Great State of Texas!

Jim Rome from his Radio Show in September 2001.

you may not have to be an aggie fan but this should kind of get under your skin a lil bit there is no reason to bash another schools traditions and the comment about the bon fire is completly uncalled for

SintonFan_inAustin
09-21-2005, 12:36 AM
Originally posted by smustangs
Sports Talk Show host Jim Rome

on Texas A&M

They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and dogs, and old army, and red ass, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat U.T., and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the feeling their entire school was built to spite U.T. Forget the fact that when the Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state university; they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main school (University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics. Ags love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't know..........the fact is, the State intended A&M to be a branch of U.T. They are like afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in "Twins". So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote their entire school to trying to prove to U.T. that they are just as good. All the while, nobody at U.T. denies that A&M is a good school, yet they won't shut up. So they write a fight song.....about?.....Texas, and how they want to beat them. They have a Fish camp for Freshman where they tell them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are. It is the worlds longest known case of penis envy, and it is manifested in everything A&M does.

The people at A&M. Now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M. There are some nice people there. However......there is the Corp. East Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe toys, there is the Corp. Now, forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corp looked like a Gestapo hate rally when beating down students (including one instance of tackling and punching a young girl) on Kyle Field in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they, just this past month, have had one Corp member bring charges against another Corp member who apparently had been propositioning others for a little actual sodomy. Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocy by these Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own stories. The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the Army, and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M don't even like these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and dress up. Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel. It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18 year old girls in the stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should be against the law. I know that in College Station, students are prone to just mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or any time anything good happens you can just grab the girl next to you and start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we had to move the game from Thanksgiving. Because people across the nation were gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game, some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the board. Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give them a veil.

t.u. is not funny. It is NOT insulting. It is just dumb. Just imagine Ags, if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A, and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be retarded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn.

You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep, of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national television. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for Governor. When you are filling out your season ticket renewals, and the form asks for your - Phone #, H & W: Quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3, Weight 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves. Go to East Texas, tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a 5th grade education why they cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid.

Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder; they might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The point is, nobody cares 'who wins halftime'. Quit getting geeked up about marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared then, and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if you do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college?

Men should never let out high pitched whooping sounds. Perhaps the only justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an anal probe. Oh wait........I understand now.

Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their own feces and should be treated accordingly.

Finally. College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it is a great college town. It is a town, and there is a college there. That should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get any better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never ending 'Dukes Of Hazard' episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move to Austin........they are trying to create an educated, technological, and open minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace and final resting place of all that is cool. As my friend Stephen Johnston once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is where you would connect the hose."

If you go to school at A&M, please don't be an aggie. God Bless the Great State of Texas!

Jim Rome from his Radio Show in September 2001.

you may not have to be an aggie fan but this should kind of get under your skin a lil bit there is no reason to bash another schools traditions and the comment about the bon fire is completly uncalled for

Rome is burning, hes pretty good with his smack.:D

big daddy russ
09-21-2005, 12:36 AM
I've got that email before... wasn't Jim Rome. I once heard it was posted on an A&M message board by a UT fan, but I don't think anyone knows the real origin of it.

smustangs
09-21-2005, 12:37 AM
good with it but the bon fire part kinda gets undre my skin i am personally not an aggie fan but thats still un called for you can be good but not an @$$ im sorry this just kinda made me mad

smustangs
09-21-2005, 12:37 AM
well if it is not from him i apologize but who ever it is from has some issues and some serious hatred

big daddy russ
09-21-2005, 12:40 AM
Originally posted by smustangs
good with it but the bon fire part kinda gets undre my skin i am personally not an aggie fan but thats still un called for you can be good but not an @$$ im sorry this just kinda made me mad
Yeah, I completely understand that one. That was a cheap shot and completely classless, but @$$ holes like that are everywhere.

Sorry 'bout the language, mods, just one of those subjects that really gets me riled up. You can ROM me now.

Keith7
09-21-2005, 12:48 AM
Jim Rome just tells it like it is.. that is what you have to respect about the man!!

big daddy russ
09-21-2005, 12:51 AM
Originally posted by Keith7
Jim Rome just tells it like it is.. that is what you have to respect about the man!!
About dead people? Cause that's cool and all.

SintonFan
09-21-2005, 12:52 AM
Originally posted by Keith7
Jim Rome just tells it like it is.. that is what you have to respect about the man!!
.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
just the because he can "talk" is no reason to respect him. You listen to sports talk and I'll listen to "the man"...:p :D

smustangs
09-21-2005, 12:55 AM
i dont see how you can honestly lay and down and sleep at night keith7. you talk bout respect for a man who disgraces the death of many innocent college kids partaking in a traditional bon fire. that is anything but respect in my book. this is trash, class less, and completly uncalled for and ridiculous

Keith7
09-21-2005, 01:46 AM
raaarrrr sorry i just liked the article and he had some very nice points.. i can respect a man for a well written article

smustangs
09-21-2005, 01:56 AM
u can respect a man for bashing some one who died partaking in a tradition? i bet you would feel differently if someone was bashing the fallen soldiers

SintonFan
09-21-2005, 02:00 AM
Originally posted by smustangs
u can respect a man for bashing some one who died partaking in a tradition? i bet you would feel differently if someone was bashing the fallen soldiers
.
i don no about that...

smustangs
09-21-2005, 02:54 AM
ok i apologize that was lil harsh its just i dont agree at all with this mans article i didnt have a problem at all till he mentioned the bon fire and i just cant respect him or see how someone could

Txbroadcaster
09-21-2005, 03:25 AM
Once again lets remember ths was not Jim Rome who said these things...i dislike him, but cannot blame him for something he did not say

Old Tiger
09-21-2005, 09:11 AM
He is just about annoying as Stephen A. Smitch

District303aPastPlayer
09-21-2005, 09:21 AM
Other than the bonfire comment...


:clap: :clap: :clap:

LH Panther Mom
09-21-2005, 09:45 AM
Originally posted by District303aPastPlayer
Other than the bonfire comment...


:clap: :clap: :clap:


I agree! The bonfire comment was out of line, but I totally agree with the rest of what he (whoever "he" is) said.

Old Tiger
09-21-2005, 09:56 AM
I don't like Aggies!!!! lol

11TARPON
09-21-2005, 10:00 AM
I also have to agree with most of what was said. I have a nephew that is attending A&M and based on what me has told me the last three years I have to agree with a lot of what is being said.

Over-rated2004
09-21-2005, 11:19 AM
Originally posted by 11TARPON
I also have to agree with most of what was said. I have a nephew that is attending A&M and based on what me has told me the last three years I have to agree with a lot of what is being said.

Jim Rome is OVER-RATED:clap:

smustangs
09-21-2005, 12:03 PM
i thought the rest was good cept the bon fire and after that i just didnt really care for any of it and like i said b4 if it wasnt him i apologize but who ever it is messed up for that comment

Keith7
09-21-2005, 12:08 PM
i've read this like 4 times and i've still yet to see what is wrong?? maybe i'm just stupid but could someone quote where there is something said bad about the bonfire??

LH Panther Mom
09-21-2005, 12:22 PM
Originally posted by Keith7
i've read this like 4 times and i've still yet to see what is wrong?? maybe i'm just stupid but could someone quote where there is something said bad about the bonfire??

"Then quit building things that fall down." The bonfire isn't specifically mentioned, just inferred.

Keith7
09-21-2005, 12:25 PM
Oh ok I thought u guys were talking about the first line where it says "how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat U.T." and i didnt see anything wrong w/ that statement

LH Panther Mom
09-21-2005, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by Keith7
Oh ok I thought u guys were talking about the first line where it says "how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat U.T." and i didnt see anything wrong w/ that statement

I kinda liked that one. :D ;)

Gobbla2001
09-21-2005, 12:32 PM
The 'building things that just fall down' comment is out of line, and totally out of character for Jim Rome, which is why this is for sure NOT a Jim Rome take... if so, that line must have been added...

Other than that I agree with some things, like how they hate U.T. more than they love A&M etc...

I've seen the 'BReak the horns of the wicked' sticker sitting higher on a back windshield of a car than the A&M sign...

If I saw UT supporters with an upside down OU on the back of their car, I'd think the same thing of them...

The week of the game is one thing, that is totally understandable, but all year long? Why don't you just change your colors to burnt orange, ya know?

ro_tex_solja
09-21-2005, 12:41 PM
that article was pretty damn funny....im pretty sure he is not makin fun of the people that died he is just stating that its not a good idea to do that maybe......but other than that i laughed pretty hard

ro_tex_solja
09-21-2005, 12:45 PM
Originally posted by Tiger WR
He is just about annoying as Stephen A. Smitch


hey stephen a is freakin funny.......lol he is tight...i like him during the nba playoffs especially

GreenGobbla
09-21-2005, 12:52 PM
Originally posted by ro_tex_solja
that article was pretty damn funny....im pretty sure he is not makin fun of the people that died he is just stating that its not a good idea to do that maybe......but other than that i laughed pretty hard

i agree, i just didnt want to be the only one to say that i laughed at this article

JR2004
09-21-2005, 01:11 PM
Like someone else said, just take out that part about the bonfire and the rest of it is really, really funny in my opinion.

big daddy russ
09-21-2005, 01:18 PM
Originally posted by Gobbla2001
Other than that I agree with some things, like how they hate U.T. more than they love A&M etc...

I've seen the 'BReak the horns of the wicked' sticker sitting higher on a back windshield of a car than the A&M sign...
Well I'll be the first to say that I hate 'Bama about as much as I love Auburn. I live with this problem on a day to day basis with no future counseling in sight. I have a bright orange T-shirt that has a picture of a toothless lady drinking a beer, smoking a cigarette, with a star over the half of her bikini that she's pulled down while she's sitting on the beach with her Bama ballcap and Bama cooler... and on the back it just says "Bama Homecoming Queen 2001." Furthermore, I have a picture sitting on the mantleplace in my townhome right now that shows a picture of Toomer's Corner*** with a caption that says, "Beat Bama." There's also an old newspaper hanging in my bedroom with an article from the Opelika-Auburn News dated 1972. The headline, you ask? "Punt, Bama, Punt."

What's worse is that this disease runs in the family. My cousin, who attended Alabama, has a framed picture in his bedroom with an Auburn student, decked out in his orange and blue, feeding a sheep. Under the picture the caption says, "What happens in Auburn stays in Auburn." He also has many other horrible, horrible criminal paraphanelia.

Sadly, my brother has contracted the disease as well. Yes, he's an Aggie and yes, he has a "Saw 'em off" plywood cutout that's about four feet wide in our living room. He did it for his final grade his senior year of HS in woodshop. He also has a "Saw 'em off" T-shirt and bumper sticker and does, indeed, admit to singing A&M's horrible, atrocious fight song.

My girlfriend is also going through the same problems.

I know I come from a depraved family. I'm sorry that I hate The University of Alabama with all that's in me and that my brother dislikes UT with all that is in him. I furthermore apologize for my mom and all my aunts/uncles (all Techies), who hate both TAMU and UT. Maybe one day we'll be filled with love like all the happy people in Austin.


***Toomer's is "the place to be" in Auburn. It's just an old diner set up in the late-1800's where students could go to get a lemonade or milkshake. Became a school tradition and is still very popular to this day. Kind of like Holik's here in CS... where the senior Corps guys buy their boots... but bigger. Auburn's big tradition is they roll Toomer's Corner after a win, just like the tower at UT lights up.

big daddy russ
09-21-2005, 01:20 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot this. Couldn't post that story without letting you guys see the background on my computer.

http://www.gflores.com/images/bamawedding.jpg

smustangs
09-21-2005, 01:58 PM
i laughed too till i got to the falling down part that just kinda rubbed me the worng way other than a great article cuz its all true

JasperDog94
09-21-2005, 02:06 PM
A buddy of mine that went to A&M said that Rome did actually say that. He said that he heard it himself. I dunno if any of it has been altered over time because this was a few years ago.